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Post by thetower52 on Sept 18, 2015 13:22:30 GMT -5
A lot of guys In late 99 seemed to stop wearing ring gear. Austin is in his Daisy Dukes in the few matches he wrestles before rikishi runs over Austin
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Post by 4real on Sept 18, 2015 14:24:11 GMT -5
Sonny Ono and Ultimo Dragon invented the selfie in 1997. Maybe.
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Post by Dave the Dave on Sept 18, 2015 14:27:49 GMT -5
Wherever the Big Bossman wrestled was the number 1 company at the time.
*the two things may be unrelated
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Sept 18, 2015 14:59:19 GMT -5
Sonny Ono and Ultimo Dragon invented the selfie in 1997. Maybe. I wonder how well some of those photos came out. Back when you didn't have a forward lens and couldn't see your pictures until you got the film developed.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Sept 18, 2015 15:44:54 GMT -5
The Rock nearly murdered X-Pac's tailbone at Royal Rumble 2000
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Post by hbkid718 on Sept 18, 2015 23:33:30 GMT -5
Sonny Ono and Ultimo Dragon invented the selfie in 1997. Maybe. I wonder how well some of those photos came out. Back when you didn't have a forward lens and couldn't see your pictures until you got the film developed. I said that the first time I saw Onoo take the picture of him & Ultimo Dragon. It was the first selfie.
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Post by hbkid718 on Sept 18, 2015 23:40:35 GMT -5
During the last 3 weeks of April of 1997, I learned that USA Network had another Sunday Night Heat before WWE's version. It was a 3 hour block of Pacific Blue, Silk Stalkings, & The Big Easy. I also learned that Tiger Ali Singh sucked, as did Rockabilly. Mankind liked to use a lot of fire, like blowtorces. And Lenny Lane debuted as Lane Carlson.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Sept 19, 2015 5:51:32 GMT -5
Shawm Michaels was entering Male Pattern Baldness City as far back as 2002
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Post by Vice honcho room temperature on Sept 19, 2015 20:08:17 GMT -5
Week after Ric Rude came back to the WWE he used a lot of insurance company slogans. Which haven't changed much in 17 years
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Post by thetower52 on Sept 19, 2015 22:33:14 GMT -5
On the smackdown before No Mercy 1999 Dennis Knight admits he has sex with dead farm animals
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Sept 19, 2015 23:56:03 GMT -5
On the smackdown before No Mercy 1999 Dennis Knight admits he has sex with dead farm animals Isn't the Attitude Era great?
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Hank Scorpio
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Post by Shark on Sept 20, 2015 2:24:27 GMT -5
Glacier never did get his helmet back from Vandenberg and Mortis.
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Post by lws on Sept 20, 2015 3:45:36 GMT -5
glacier eventually sells his gimmick to kaz hayashi in a weird angle. so i guess he had to get it back to sell it.
i guess i knew this at the time, but i'm being reminded by the network that tajiri was one of the funniest wrestlers ever. there's something about having a small shirtless guy who doesn't speak the language that just leads itself to comedy. i.e. smackdown july 5, 2001, vince mcmahon is with austin, angle, regal, tajiri and debra. he has been served divorce papers and is bummed out so he's hitting the strip club. he makes a note of it that only tajiri is invited to come with him. this is also the episode where they wear funny hats. say what you will about heel austin, but he was probably the funniest character ever in the main event during this period. maybe rock or jericho had funnier jokes now and again, but full segments are solely intended for comedy and they hit on ever level.
the next episode of smackdown, i realize/remember that regal can speak japanese, or at least understand tajiri, which is another hilarious development. tajiri asks to do color commentary and regal notes he's at least better than tazz, and he's grateful tajiri chose to stay with wwf instead of joining ecw. so the commentary team is jr, michael cole and tajiri, speaking mostly japanese. he tells jr his english is "so-so" (and jr brilliantly responds "me too") and then proceeds to say jr cliches in broken english at random. "slob-knocka" and "uh-biz-nizz is pick-ing up" are repeated a few times and i laugh every time. unfortunately tazz beats him up after he only calls one match.
also i learned intercontinental champion albert lasted longer than one week. i think its funny kid rock and uncle kracker apparently didn't care that edge called the x factor song horrible and mocked it very severely (and, quite frankly, accurately).
it also occurs to me watching this that perry saturn 100% completely did the eugene "mentally challenged" gimmick years before eugene and no one really seemed to mind (that i know of). except, of course, saturn, if you listen to shoot interviews where he said he hated the whole thing. but it is really over, and i admit i laughed pretty hard when he jumped in the ring and did the worm against his own partner malenko after stealing scotty 2 hotty's hat. and who doesn't fondly remember "get the muffins!!" or "doggies eat applesauce!" i guess falling in love with a mop is a bit much, but his general mentally challenged character was far better than eugene's main event one.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 20, 2015 13:27:13 GMT -5
Two thoughts involving Curtis Axel after having watched MITB 2013 & 2014 this weekend:
MITB 2013:
-Did that run-in by Curtis Axel preventing Daniel Bryan from claiming the briefcase ever lead to anything? Because the month after that, Bryan had his WWE Championship match with Cena at Summerslam.
MITB 2014:
-From when to when did Curtis Axel start wearing those "ladies only" singlets while teaming with Ryback?
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Sept 20, 2015 16:20:04 GMT -5
Week after Ric Rude came back to the WWE he used a lot of insurance company slogans. Which haven't changed much in 17 years "Who are you talking to?" "It's Rick Rude...from StateFarm."
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Post by Jumpin' Jesse Walsh on Sept 20, 2015 16:28:49 GMT -5
The fun part about the first few Halloween Havoc events is that the production values are super rough. The opening video graphic for Havoc 89 looks like something from the Halloween special of a local access children's show.
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Post by Surfer Sandman on Sept 20, 2015 16:58:03 GMT -5
This may be the greatest theme song in the history of our sport. WONDERFUL! Are both Paul and Paula singing that song?
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He's just a Sexy Kurt
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Post by 67 more on Sept 21, 2015 3:47:40 GMT -5
Two thoughts involving Curtis Axel after having watched MITB 2013 & 2014 this weekend: MITB 2014: -From when to when did Curtis Axel start wearing those "ladies only" singlets while teaming with Ryback? MITB 2014 to MITB 2014. There's no typo there.
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Bill S. Preston, Esq.
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Post by FinalGwen on Sept 21, 2015 14:14:16 GMT -5
So I've never watched Wrestlemania X7 before, and thought I'd give it a go, and liveblog a few of my thoughts: - The stage setup is like the prototype of the modern day tron/minitron. If they did this stage today people would say they were lazy for going with something so similar to the norm. - Pre-Invasion, Heyman somethings acts almost as more of a heel play-by-play than a colour commentator, and it's pretty interesting as a dynamic. - JBL was doing the string-of-obscure-sports-references-motormouth routine long before he got behind a commentary desk. We were warned and we failed to stop it. - Bull Buchanan's leaping clothesline at the start of the RTC match is awesome. I'd love to see someone like Harper doing it. Definitely a better flying big-man move than the suicide dive. I feel like I've done BB a disservice in retrospect based on how dull he was to play as in Smackdown 2, because boy did he look crisper than anyone else in that match. - JR at the start of the Hardcore match: "For my money, this young man Kane may be the future!". Well, nearly 15 years later he's still getting involved in main events, so I guess you keep your money, JR. - Oh, it's this PPV with the golf karts. So it was very nearly Local Men Ruin Wrestlemania. - Test really was an amazing big man. His tilt a whirl moves were things of beauty particularly with someone like Eddie to sell them, especially the tilt-a-whirl into a powerbomb. Seamless. - I guess it's not just now that the Dudleys didn't bother to match their camouflage. It's Wrestlebloodymania, guys. Coordinate! - Loved the spot where Austin brings out the Million Dollar Dream because he needs to beat the Rock that badly, only for Rock to use the Bret Hart counter that beat Austin on more than one occasion. - Not so much a fan of "McMahon gives him the chair, Rock kicks out, stunner, Rock kicks out, McMahon gives him the chair, then it ends". Overcomplicated a simple turn.
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Post by lildude8218 on Sept 22, 2015 0:57:43 GMT -5
a nip slip is more obvious when it's blurred out than when it's visible
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